• Best Finish: Runner-up, 2015 … fell 1-3 to Mexico in the final (Darren Mattocks 78’) … marked best Caribbean GC finish, besting previous semifinal appearances by Jamaica (1993, 1998) and Guadeloupe (2007) … attempting to reach knockout phase in three consecutive GC appearances for the first time in team history

• Andre Blake: 2016 Major League Soccer Goalkeeper of the Year with the Philadelphia Union … posted seven shutouts thus far in 2017 MLS campaign

• KemarLawrence: started 58 of 59 regular-season MLS games since joining New York Red Bulls in 2015 … played in five games during 2016/17 CONCACAF Champions League

• Darren Mattocks: made Jamaica debut in 2-0 win v El Salvador on August 15, 2012 … only player on Jamaica’s 2017 roster to have scored in a previous GC edition

• Head Coach: Theodore Whitmore (since September 2016) … in his 4th stint as Jamaica manager, the longest running from 2009-13 … most recently assumed the role following the departure of Winfried Schaefer, who guided Jamaica to the 2015 Gold Cup final

EL SALVADOR

• Last Time Out at the Gold Cup (GC): El Salvador 2, Curacao 0 … Rodolfo Zelayaset up Gerson Mayen’s opener before scoring his ninth career GC goal three minutes later as El Salvador cruised to just its second win by multiple goals in GC history … the victory snapped a six-game GC winless skid and a seven-match stretch of scoring one goal or fewer

• Top GC Scorer: Rodolfo Zelaya(9 goals) … sits in four-way tie for seventh on the all-time GC goal-scoring list … first Salvadoran to score at least one goal in three different GC editions … did not play in the 2015 edition

• Head Coach: Eduardo Lara (since December of 2016) … Promoted from El Salvador’s U-20 head position … the Colombian spent nearly a decade as a youth manager in his home country’s national team program … also served briefly as Colombia’s first-team interim manager when Jorge Luis Pinto was dismissed in 2008